[1st-mile-nm] Qwest Moving 90 Jobs Out of Albuquerque

[Richard Lowenberg]

(Forwarded from subscriber, Carroll Cagle.)

Qwest Moving 90 Jobs Out of Albuquerque

Albuquerque Journal
Thursday, January 24, 2008

Qwest Communications announced Wednesday it will eliminate 90 New  Mexico
jobs by closing its Albuquerque operator and information service
headquarters April 18.

Qwest spokesman Gary Younger said the 90 people working at the
headquarters will be given the opportunity to follow those jobs to
Colorado, Iowa, Minnesota or Utah.

In addition, the workers will be given the chance to transfer to any
open Qwest job in New  Mexico for which they are qualified.
They will be given preferential treatment among applicants for those
jobs, Younger added.

The reason for the closing is that Qwest is consolidating its operator
and information services into fewer, larger offices, he said.
Service to telephone customers should be not be affected, he said.

Qwest serves 14 mostly western territories and is New Mexico's largest
land line phone provider.

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Richard Lowenberg
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505-989-9110,  505-603-5200 cell

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